This adventure story by H. G. Wells is unusual in that it has no heroes. The two men arriving by canoe on a deserted Borneo island have killed another to get their hands on a map. As well as including some strange symbols and Chinese writing the men can’t understand, the map shows the location of a buried treasure. When the men reach the spot, they find the treasure intact. As they carry some of it away, they learn to their cost the meaning of the symbols on the map, and why its owner was smiling as they killed him.
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